Vision

Build groundbreaking category-leading companies that seize opportunities in a transforming cyber landscape

About Us Team8 is a cyber-security company ideation and creation environment, uniquely designed to build disruptive solutions that challenge current cyber-security paradigms. Team8 collaborates with innovative leaders and entrepreneurs to address the biggest problems in cyber-security and provides the capital, research, expertise, network and talent needed to effectively Collabor8, Innov8 and Acceler8 the development of disruptive solutions and long-term sustainable businesses.

Team8 is led by accomplished entrepreneurs and cyber innovation executives and is backed by Cisco and Alcatel-Lucent as well as leading investors, Marker LLC, Bessemer Venture Partners and Innovation Endeavors.

The Team

Team8 represents decades of cyber leadership, with a unique insight to the undercurrents of the cyber threat and unparalleled access to exceptional talent. Team8 consists of individuals who acquired matchless hands-on experience in cyber warfare, teamed with industry cyber defense experts and accomplished entrepreneurs. The team has a track record of applying revolutionary approaches to new technological concepts and processes from which ground breaking practical solutions emerged. Based on our background and in coherence to the current state of the cyber arena, we are exploring the vulnerabilities of the current concepts and developing disruptive concepts that will address the upcoming paradigm shift.

 Nadav Zafrir Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer Former Commander of IDF's technology & intelligence unit (8200), as well as founder of the IDF Cyber Command. Nadav brings 25 years of extensive experience in cyber leadership. Nadav holds an LL.B from the Interdisciplinary Centre and an MBA from Tel-Aviv University and Kellogg School in North-western University in Chicago.

 Israel Grimberg Co-Founder, Chief Innovation Officer Former head of the Cyber Division at IDF's technology & intelligence unit 8200. Over the course of 23 years, Israel held numerous positions, from engineering to leading thousands of cyber R&D experts. Israel holds BSc and MSc degrees from Tel-Aviv University.  Liran Grinberg Co-Founder, Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer Former distinguished officer at the IDF's technology & intelligence unit 8200, Liran has led several R&D teams in the unit's cyber division, as well as held several product management positions at successful Israeli start-up companies (eToro, Conduit). Liran has founded a start-up specializing in e-commerce personalization technologies. Liran holds a BSc in computer science from the Academic College of Tel-Aviv.

 Ronni Zehavi Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer Former Senior Vice President of Security Business Development at Akamai. Ronni has over twenty years of experience in multi-national, high-technology companies. Prior to Akamai, Ronni was CEO and co-founder of Cotendo, a leading provider of web and mobile acceleration services, which was acquired by Akamai for $300M. Before co-founding Cotendo, Ronni was Vice President of International Sales and Business Development for email security company - Commtouch (Nasdaq CTCH). Ronni has a BA in History and Educational Management from Tel Aviv University, and a MA in Organizational Sociology from Bar-Ilan University.